The fringes of reality grow really ragged

[davefreer]

I'm used to dealing with the weird world of South Africa, and the weirder world of publishing. It's always a bit like looking at existance through a fragile flawed crystal looking glass, which not only shows things bass-ackwards, but frequently with added illusions (and will break if you drop it). Little things like the sales of of new vehicles

Comments

[eneit]

meep. Here's hoping at least some of the uncertainties facing you guys are resolved in good ways soon!

[reverancepavane]

Still, it's probably better than getting distracted by a good book whilst waiting for stuff to cook and only realising that something might be wrong when the smoke gets too thick to read the page. Which may have happened to someone who I frequently speak of in the first person a couple of times...
I miss cooking a lot. I used to pride myself on successful experimental cookery. Two great tastes that no body in their right mind would think of putting together sometimes works. But only sometimes. Then again, I only really truly cook for other people; for myself I've gotten in the lazy habit of just preparing food (and sometimes not even that). Hmmmm. Bachelor chow. With added cardboard.

[onyxhawke]

I had to learn to cheat and prepare a bunch-o'-real-food for myself, it was easier when I had a spare freezer.

[davefreer]

Batchelor food in batches. I have a problem with this. 1)I would need a lot of spare fry-pans to freeze (you mean eat off plates? how un-batchelorish) and i think cooked bacon loses its 'crisp' if frozen.

[davefreer]

(nod) When Barbs was doing this AIDS survey stuff, I spend about 3 months cooking for myself only about 4 nights a week. And mostly living on BLTs. Sometimes with lettuce and tomato even.

[unixronin]

I managed to boil rice the other night... remembering salt and water and to light the gas... and forgetting the minor detail of 'add rice'. So when everthing else was perfectly ready the rice was still suffering from a serious dose of 'packet'.
I managed to do that once. Put salt and water in the rice cooker, forgot the rice....

[cymrullewes]

And I have forgotten to add salt to the pizza dough three times. Forgot to add salt to the English muffins yesterday.

[davefreer]

Does this come under 'add in salt to injury' ;-). Bread of any sort without a little salt is really... lacking.

[cymrullewes]

I agree. My ratio is 1 tablespoon of salt to 6 cups of flour, no matter what the recipe itself calls for. Bread without salt is actually Tuscan (according to one of my bread books, the Tuscans got cut off from their salt supply for a few years and people learned to adapt to cooking without salt.)